When it's comes to self defense I think you are taking the term literally. It also include protecting other such as your family and friends

Not true the Christians during the time of Nero did not protect themselves, and instead lived on.

it didn't really work well for them tho?

They lived knowing God will protect them

And it worked out fine in the end.

their populations were low as hell

until Constantine the great came along

That's actually not true Christianity was spreading like a wildfire during that period of time

Constantine the great came along and made it encouraged.

That actually stopped the spread, because people outside considered it a "roman religion"

outside of the roman empire*

Persecution makes us stronger, and God will reward us for it.

I think u mean the ones that survived nero lived on...the ones that didn't get tossed to the lions, or lit up as human candles brought us Christianity.

And Christianity spread so fast the emperor couldn't deal with it

Christianity lived on, emperor nero ended up dying

Christianity lived nero died

Idk what he died of

@Cothelas Decaeneus Would you have fought in WW2 or would you just step back and let others die for you?

I'm Romanian so I wouldn't have fought, because I would have fought for the side of Hitler.

Also because it wasn't needed

lmfao yeah with his logic we shoulda just let hitler be

cuz god would take care of it

Is pentecostal popular in romania? @Cothelas Decaeneus

Hitler, Stalin, all of them.

You know Hitler's rise was predicted in Deuteronomy as a punishment to the jews the way it stopped was, because again God allowed it to be stopped through the use of mostly non Christians

Would you fight for the allies though?

im just sayin if we got the power to stop an atrocity then as a good human we should

I mean it's either that or go with the orthodox.

and if that means we got to fight then we fight

I wouldn't have fought at all

damn so u had the power to help and to stop a man killing millions yet u chose to step back

That's a hell of a thing to say that the guys at Normandy weren't real Christians.

Right, dead folks stayed dead, thus only the living passed on Christianity's message. They protected themselves and passed on the message.

They didn't protect themselves actually

so ur saying all of them handed themselves over

Cough* russians cough* russians were the majority reason of ww2 ending

they didnt try to hide and do nothing

?

No? they didn't attack back is what i'm saying

but why did they hide

didnt they trust god?